CREATIVE LEARNING & TEACHING WEEK
Creative Learning and Teaching Week
Time to take a risk!
At Woodrush, we try to always be creative in our approach to Learning and Teaching, but as we
approached the end of the academic year, staff decided they wanted to really push the boundaries. A ‘Creativity focus group’ of teachers from a range of Faculties have been focusing on Creativity as a particular aspect of Learning and Teaching over the year, and they decided to have
a week where all staff made a concerted effort to try new approaches in the classroom. Staff
training sessions were devoted to Creativity, as were assemblies, and throughout the week staff
shared their thoughts and ideas through a FROG blog, twitter, and discussions in the staffroom.
Faculty feedback
English :
English through Drama with Year 10
Different seating arrangements
Group and collaborative work every
lesson
Year 8 – Dressed as superheros and
performed their own superhero-themed
adverts
Year 9 – self managing to achieve the
learning objectives
Year 13 – Eat favourite chocolate bar
and use it as method to understand
difference between Id, Ego and Superego.
Humanities :
Making and playing children’s learning
games and singing songs
Students give feedback in mime
Classrooms without tables
Meditation
Recreating an election
Recreating the Blitz experience
Role play – civil war news broadcasts
Painting volcanos
Using Playdoh to create land-
form models
6th form – using LEGO to
create powerpoint video for
revision
PE :
Capture the Flag
Wimbledon-themed tennis
competition
Making movable skeletons
Zumba
Multi-sport cricket
Maths :
Open ended investigation – student led
focus
Writing newspaper articles / comic
strips to present findings
Hunting for shapes in the quad.
Maths through cookery – making cakes
Making a mini-person
Devising and making a new maths
boardgame
More groupwork & combining classes
Doing messy stuff !
Creative Arts :
Pavement graffiti with Year 9 art
Using classical music in Art lessons
Music technology lessons for Year 8
Year 7 making their own trumpets for
the Fanfares unit in music
Year 10 music group did impromptu
performances in hall at lunchtime
Lighting workshop in drama
Teacher as silent observer in Drama
Pupils take the lesson
Drama ‘tubs of truth’.
MFL :
Draw what you read / hear
Sentence jenga
Desert Island
Books
Staff and students have been choosing books
that they would recommend to someone stranded alone on a desert island. The books are
wrapped up and, without revealing the titles
and authors, a message added explaining what
makes them good reads. Once a mystery book
has been selected the recipient reads and reviews it.
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Battleships
Dominoes
Rapidough
Running dictation – a leaflet
Market place
Tarsia
Present a research project
Dancing & singing to learn vocab /
numbers
Pupils plan and deliver own lesson
Webquest
DT / ICT :
What’s in the bag ?
Circle time
Think outloud / roleplay
Random name generator
Spin the bottle – choose your task
Imaginative designer
Roll the dice – evaluations
Thinking dice for Blooms taxonomy
Role play through the Simpsons
Using Nature – getting inspiration from
the outdoors
Apple TV
Rap